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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Sully- who wrote (76478)1/7/2010 12:06:13 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Cable news 37, Big 3 news 22

Don Surber

The sniping at cable news by newspapers and the ABC-CBS-NBC news people is telling. It did not take a Rasmussen poll to figure out who the Big Dogs are now.

And cable new outlets are the Big Dogs.

And Fox News is the Biggest of the Big Dogs.

But Rasmussen did a poll anyway and here are the numbers.

37% of voters say they will get their political news from the cable news networks.

22% say the regular TV networks.

21% say the Internet.

9% say newspapers.

7% say radio.

Who knows where that remaining 4% will get their political news. Movie newsreels? Word of mouth? Osmosis?

If the medium is the message, things do not bode well for liberals in 2010.

Here is why.

1. Fox News now owns 44% of that cable news market. That means 16% of the voters get their political news from Fox News.

Divide by 3 that 22% that the regular networks share, and Fox News draws double the audience of any one of the 3 nightly news reports.

Glenn Beck is more important today than Katie Couric was in 2008.

2. When people say radio is their primary source for political news, they mean Rush Limbaugh. Maybe you can throw in Sean Hannity, Michael Savage or Mark Levin.

One can see why the rest of the media attacks Fox News and the talk radio guys. They are the Big Dogs now. And their audiences skew older.

And guess who votes?

Us old people.

Upon further review of these numbers, I officially double the odds of Republicans winning back the Senate — to 2%.

As for the newspapers, the numbers would drive me to drink if I did not drink already.

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